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Agrentina’s Vice-President Gabriela Michetti on Friday rejected accusations she was trying to hinder a vote in the Senate on a bill to decriminalise elective abortion.

“There is no way to delay it [the vote] because the four committees will work simultaneously”, Michetti, a staunch Catholic and abortion opponent, told state-run news agency Télam.

Her comments follow Peronist Senator Miguel Ángel Pichetto’s accusations that Michetti — who as vice-president serves as the Speaker of the Upper House — was trying to “hinder the vote” by sending the bill to four instead of two committees.

“The transfer [of the bill to four committees] was totally excessive, and the transfer to [the] Budget and Constitutional Affairs [committees] was unnecessary”, Pichetto said.